Canada’s Expensive Health-Care System Ranks Poorly Compared to Most Developed Countries: Study

Canada’s Expensive Health-Care System Ranks Poorly Compared to Most Developed Countries: Study
A nurse puts a pair of socks on a patient in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit at Surrey Memorial Hospital in Surrey, B.C., on June 4, 2021. The Canadian Press/Jonathan Hayward
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Despite spending more on health care than most other high-income countries with universal coverage, Canada’s health system ranks poorly in comparison, having the longest wait times, with fewer doctors and hospital beds, and lagging behind on medical technologies, a new Fraser Institute study has found.

The study uses a “value for money” approach to compare the cost and performance of the universal health-care systems in 28 high-income countries, selected from the member states of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).